PAINFUL SWITCH

chapter 1

(Arana and her best friend are picking rubber bottles from the rubbish bin)

Arana:(checking her sack) this will do. Time to go(looking around and calls out to her best friend) Nana, Nana, where are you?

Hanna: (hides, creeps out and tries to scare Arana)

Arana: (not fazed at all)

Hanna: Anna, Really? nothing? nothing at all?

Arana: Nana, I would have gotten scared if it was someone else but it's just you and you are my best friend, plus you do this all the time, so (changing the subject) have you filled your sacks?

Hanna: yes I have, have you?

Arana: I filled six sacks.

Hanna: wow, that was fast but why did you fill six? we normally fill two.

Arana: yeah I know but I have to, at least the money I make after selling them, will help mother alot and i might also be able to pay my brother's school fees, don't you think?

Hanna: yeah, I guess

Arana: come on, let's go, mother will be waiting for me.

Hanna: (clumsily) whatever

Arana: what now?

Hanna: (ignores her)

Arana: are you still mad I wasn't scared.

Hanna: (looks away)

Arana: Nana, (after awhile) okay, I promise to get scared the next time you scare me, okay?

Hanna: promise, Anna?

Arana: promise

Hanna: Really?

Arana: cross my heart

Hanna: okay

Arana: let's go?

Hanna: sure

(They both carry there sacks and leave)